When Margaret (Nell Tiger Free) comes to Rome to finish her apprenticeship at a nun-run orphanage and move into finally taking her own vows and joining the brides of Christ, she is understandably thrilled. This will be the culmination of the hard work she has been doing thus far and it will lead to good […]
Read more "The Miracle of Life Is Messy: The First Omen (2024)"Alexandra Parkman (Christine Moore) is carrying around quite a bit of bad baggage, thanks to her creepy abusive dad. He’s gone, now, and she’s a grown woman, but she can’t stomach the idea of being touched, which makes things difficult for her fiancé Bill King (Tim Gail). She’s the head of a shelter for abused […]
Read more "1 Blood Sacrifice = 13 Years of Power: Prime Evil (1988)"When she was young, Cathy (Christine Moore) was terrified of imaginary monsters, which her pathological mother said would “get” her. These spectral beings waited in the stairwell or in the walls of her bedroom, emerging after dark to gaze upon her, to murmur or wail, to reach for her. Nightmarish situation, but not as much […]
Read more "You Shouldn’t Go Home Again: The Lurkers (1987)"Nightmare on Dare Street is a video content provider in search of success. By trying out spooky games in equally spooky locales, hosts Kris Russo (Alec Carlos) and Chloe “The Amazing” Young (Verity Marks), camera dude and true believer Matty Davis (Nazariy Demkowicz), electronics/camera techie Izzy Simpson (Madison MacIsaac), and invisible producer Kevin (Liam Stewart-Kanigan) […]
Read more "Who’s Ready to Meet the 5th Floor Woman: Elevator Game (2023)"Valeria (Natalia Solián) and Raúl (Alfonso Dosal) are finally taking the next step in their relationship, and the good news is they’re expecting. Cells that will eventually make the leap into a little girl are even now growing inside of the mother, and the changes that come with this are arriving as expected. Morning sickness, […]
Read more "Nightmare Pregnancy: Huesera: The Bone Woman"On the bleak Welsch countryside, a woman is fished out of the sea, near to drowning, possibly from suicide. She is soon transported to a clinic for help. However, the help she receives is rather unhelpful. What follows is a series of moments, scenes, skits, and sketches that vary from the utterly absurd to the […]
Read more "Knock & Wait: The Other Side of the Underneath"It was a chance encounter for Cecilia (Aisha Dee) to run into her childhood bff Emma (Hannah Barlow) at the corner mart. When they were kids, they were inseparable, but all that changed when they were eleven or twelve and they drifted apart. Emma doesn’t seem to recall the specifics, but Cecilia sure does. Like […]
Read more "I Am Special, I Am Loved, I Am Enough, I Am Doing My Best: Sissy (2022)"Following a double mastectomy, Veronica Ghest (Alice Krige) and her young nurse/caretaker Desi (Kota Eberhardt) head up into the highlands of Scotland. Veronica has decided to go into solitary retreat to recover, and she’s been promised a quiet time at an all-women’s locale. However, when she arrives, she finds the place is overrun with other […]
Read more "Solitary Retreat: She Will (2022)"The Batiste family has a good standing in their Louisiana community. Louis (Samuel L. Jackson) is the kind doctor, his stunning wife Roz (Lynn Whitfield) is the generous spirited mother of three children, eldest Cisely (Meagan Good), coming of age Eve (Jurnee Smollett), and young son Poe (Jake Smollett). Louis’ sister Mozelle Batiste Delacroix (Debbi […]
Read more "Most People’s Lives Are A Great Disappointment to Them and No One Leaves This Earth Without Feeling Terrible Pain: Eve’s Bayou (1997)"When Julia (Maika Monroe) and Francis (Karl Glusman) arrive in Bucharest, the night is lit up like it’s Christmas. The cabdriver (Tudor Petrut) is a jokey sort. The landlady in their apartment building is welcoming though a tad hurried. The apartment is spacious and the neighborhood seems nice enough. It’s a perfect home base for […]
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